ViTA's Transition Care Program helps older people get stronger and healthier in order to return home after a hospital stay. The older people here (we call them customers) really enjoy their movies on Friday afternoons, so we need a volunteer who is able-bodied and friendly to collect customers from their rooms, help them walk or push them in a wheelchair to the movie room, put on the film for them, watch it with them while keeping an eye on them to see if they need any help, and then escort them back to their rooms.

Volunteer must have excellent verbal communication due to our customers having poor hearing. You must be able to divide your attention between the film and the customers.

Desirable criteria for this volunteer are: • A genuine interest in older people • Punctuality, reliability and dependability • Well-developed organisational, communication and interpersonal skills including effective communication with older people with memory loss. • Effective written and verbal communication skills • Demonstrated energy and enthusiasm to effectively contribute as an individual as well as within a team environment • A desire to give of self for the betterment of the broader community • A positive and can do attitude • An ability to work with older people as well as people with varied backgrounds and possess values that recognise and support personal, cultural and lifestyle differences. • An ability to accept direction when required and initiative to work independently